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"RELATOS ENREDADOS ENTRE EL MISTERIO" | by RENATA SKADA May 18, 2011 | $5.00 | 1418 words | Sample 20% |
| INVENTO REINVENTO EL MISTERIO. RESUCITANDO... MONTAÑAS DE ARENAS INHÓSPITAS. ¡VIVIENDO! LAS LUNAS, NOCHES,BRILLOS, DESLUMBRES INALCANZABLES. LATIDOS AGITADOS, JUEGOS DE AMANTES. PERSIGUIENDO... LUNARES INHIBIDO VENENO. ¡TENTACIONES! PERDURANDO PARA SIEMPRE. DESARMANDANDO LAS ARMADURAS ENTRE MIRADAS. MISTERIO EL AMOR... ESCRIBO EL AMOR... PINCELES DIBUJANDO . CUERPOS...VERSIFICANDO. | |||||
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...The Twain Shall Meet | by j guevara Oct. 16, 2009 | $2.99 | 67313 words | Sample 20% |
| Twain's mind in modern times; insight with bite. | |||||
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1 God - Poems on God , Creator | by Nikhil Parekh Sep. 05, 2010 | Free! | 135898 words | Read a sample |
| "1 God" is a 522 pages Poetry Book . The compilation of poems depicts the Omniscient Creator in his unconquerable shapes and forms. Goes to irrefutably prove that there is just one Creator, you choose to call him by whatever name - and for everyone one of us till the time we live. This book is an earnest dedication to Almighty Lord. | |||||
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1 Out Of 17 Calls Might Be Wrong | by Linda Sands May 06, 2011 | $0.99 | 3522 words | |
| It's not easy being an NBA referee like Lonnie Sandwich. | |||||
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10,000 Miles From Home | by Nathalia Li Sep. 09, 2011 | $1.99 | 18684 words | Sample 25% |
| In July, 1984, Nick travels by train from eastern China to the city of Xian to visit his former student, Li Xiuli.But he has not realized that Xiao Zhou, her fiance, is suspicious and jealous. | |||||
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100 Words - Short Stories | by Ann Ahsberg Nov. 14, 2010 | $1.99 | 1208 words | Sample 30% |
| Short and beautifully sweet; 100 Words - Short Stories by Swedish Author Ann Ahsberg is the first in a series of uniquely presented poetical writings. | |||||
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107 Degrees Fahrenheit | by Barry Rachin April 15, 2011 | $0.99 | 5740 words | Sample 20% |
| A young boy spends a magical weekend with his sister, a former collegiate track star crippled in a freak accident. During the visit he learns a poignant lesson about the resilience of monarch butterflies and the human heart | |||||
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2088 | by Peter Rehard July 02, 2011 | Free! | 90196 words | Read a sample |
| (Further edited version) "2088" is the story of John, a man living in the metropolis South Dakota City, and his trial of existing among a capitalistic world. Fired from his job, things for John fall apart upon meeting a misfit named Logan. He finds himself on the run, wanted by the government. The choices he will make not only determine his fate and death, but what kind of man he becomes | |||||
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22 Kisses | by Paul O'Cathain Jan. 16, 2012 | $2.99 | 90963 words | Sample 20% |
| This book contains 22 stories about kisses--how some kisses can change lives, how some kisses cannot be forgotten, how a desire to kiss can alter a person profoundly. These are stories about a decisive moment that revolves around a kiss, and how kisses can alter the course of a life. | |||||
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24/7 No Overtime Pay | by Rebecca Rose Taylor Jan. 02, 2011 | Free! | 1123 words | Read a sample |
| This short story is about a woman and her son who visit family at a sheep farm. | |||||
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2984 | by R. Vincent Riccio Dec. 04, 2009 | $6.95 | 101903 words | Sample 33% |
| Enter a futuristic, Orwellian Earth a thousand years in the future, where a benevolent but omnipotent government controls everything - what you see, believe, think, and do - where one man seeks the answers to how the world developed in this fashion, & where he must unravel the mind-boggling mysteries & puzzles which surround society, mankind, his beautiful Nurse-guide, & his own incredible life. | |||||
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3 | by Moxie Mezcal March 31, 2010 | Free! | 21959 words | Read a sample |
| An obsessive porn store clerk finds herself plunged into an old fashioned whodunnit. A group of four teenage friends wait for the world to end. A desperate journalist tries to explain why he is guilty of an elaborate hoax... and how his lies might be coming true. Three short stories about identity, addiction, guilt, and redemption: Home Movie | 1999 | Fake | |||||
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3/17 | by MaryPat Hyland Aug. 13, 2011 | $2.99 | 64383 words | Sample 20% |
| In this loose parody of Dante's "Inferno," four Irish traditional musicians get lost in the backwoods of upstate New York the week before St. Patrick's Day. On the journey, the band descends through nine hellish circles of American-style March 17th revelry: Step-dancing princesses. Bobbing shamrock headbangers. Green beer bacchanals. Shillelagh-wavin' geezers. O'Fun, not! | |||||
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3000 Beats Per Second | by Andrew Berg Oct. 20, 2009 | Free! | 1850 words | Read a sample |
| The greatest Make-Up Artist ever is found dead in the East River in this tragic, non-linear tale of boyhood lost and regained. Join Tonto, Sings-Like-A-Bird and Kills-Big-Bear as they attempt to save their companion and creator. | |||||
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6 Short Stories | by Robert T. Jeschonek Nov. 18, 2010 | $2.99 | 34353 words | Sample 10% |
| 6 stories for one low price: "Wave a White Flag": An old man throws everything out the window. "Day of the Mad Shitter": Hunting a workplace slob. "How to Get Lucky": A narcoleptic's nightmares. "A Wall of Lisas": A lonely woman goes mad. "The Day After They Rounded Up Everyone Who Could Love Unconditionally": A society sheds its weakest links. "The Walking Bomb": A minister becomes a human bomb. | |||||
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::Hard | by Matthew Temple May 01, 2011 | $5.99 | 107655 words | Sample 20% |
| Love isn't easy. | |||||
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A Bard for Highgrove | by Meic Stephens March 17, 2011 | $3.90 | 41418 words | Sample 20% |
| A satirical novel, at once provocative and percipient, but never bland, is partly a critique of the institution of monarchy and partly a satire on the culture and politics of contemporary Wales by Meic Stephens, retired Professor of Literature at Aberystwyth University in Wales and well known cultural figure. | |||||
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A Beat, a Bong, and a Bang | by Anar Green July 17, 2010 | $2.99 | 57518 words | Sample 12% |
| It's a long weekend. Costa & his friends go from party to party till the morning after-parties start. There's sex & drugs & beats if you can guest-list your way into enough of them. But looming are the weekdays of prefab choices between the hopeless & the impossible, between this bit of your identity & that. Nothing on TV reflects your reality, and the life it'd promised is getting even farther. | |||||
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A Beautiful Cup | by Chris Morgan May 23, 2011 | $9.99 | 145834 words | Sample 20% |
| Everything you want in a novel - love, sex, crime, fledgling mobsters, tarot readings, dancing, mayhem, fog, beautiful cups of coffee and beautiful people who serve them. | |||||
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A caçada ao assassino deturpador | by Fernando Barrile Jan. 10, 2012 | $5.99 | 43712 words | Sample 20% |
| Uma jovem e promissora atriz morta na banheira. No quarto ao lado um rapaz coberto de sangue. Todos consideram o caso resolvido, mas não Téo (Theodoro Sousa),o investigador particular vai percorrer as ruas de São Paulo em busca da verdade em uma perigosa e intrigante investigação. | |||||
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A Cage of Bones | by Jeffrey Round April 22, 2010 | $8.99 | 77221 words | Sample 10% |
| First published in England to international acclaim in 1997, Jeffrey Round’s classic novel, A Cage of Bones, now appears in a new edition. At the beginning of the ’90s, an ingenuous young Torontonian named Warden Fields is persuaded to work as a model in Europe’s fashion capitals. Italy revels in the opulent splendour of designers like Versace and Ferré. | |||||
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A Car Crash of Sorts | by Frank Marcopolos Aug. 26, 2011 | $0.99 | 5566 words | Sample 30% |
| The only soldier in the history of the Army to bring both MACBETH and DUINO ELEGIES to boot camp, Dante Kronos recruits his best buddies to establish "The Reading Maniacs Reading Group" on Fort Bragg. When a barracks brothel-ring threatens to annihilate his team, can Dante destroy the threat and save the brotherhood? * This is a short story of 5,443 words. | |||||
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A Child from the Wishing Well | by Raymond Nickford Aug. 04, 2011 | $1.20 | 94486 words | Sample 5% |
| Gerard's wish is to break out of paranoia, discover daughter Rosie's love. Is the eerie music tutor Ruth's foul-smelling well a place where wishes happen? Psychological suspense thriller | |||||
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A Collection of Proverbs, Adages and Idioms | by Linda Alchin Dec. 07, 2011 | $2.99 | 10097 words | Sample 15% |
| Proverbs are short, but memorable sayings, based on an important fact of experience that is considered true by many people. Adages which describe a rule of conduct are also known as known as "maxims". An Idiom is a common, everyday phrase or expression or saying whose meaning cannot be understood by the individual words or elements. A huge collection of famous Proverbs, Adages and Idioms. | |||||
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A Collection of Short Stories, Volume 1 | by Wes Patterson Aug. 13, 2010 | $4.99 | 110812 words | Sample 30% |
| This volume of short stories follows Cal Rowland though his University days, his attempts to understand the meaning of it all, why are we here and where do we go, and how to influence girls to do what he wants. | |||||
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A Collection of Short Stories, Volume 2 | by Wes Patterson Aug. 16, 2010 | $4.99 | 117926 words | Sample 20% |
| This volume of short stories follows Cal Rowland through his after-college years when he began to experiment with hypnosis, past life regression, striving to explore and understand the true meaning of life, while breading ferrets and wolves on his Florida wild animal pet ranch. | |||||
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A Collection of Short Stories, Volume 3 | by Wes Patterson Aug. 16, 2010 | $4.99 | 97838 words | Sample 20% |
| This volume of short stories follows Cal Rowland through his mature days of life when he finally concluded that it is very difficult to discover what happens after death, and therefore he embarked on earthy pursuits, like winning at horse-racing, fast cars and not taking life too seriously. | |||||
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A Communion of Water and Blood | by Bernard Fancher Feb. 04, 2012 | Free! | 5389 words | Read a sample |
| A follow-up collection of poems continuing upon themes dealt with in "Before Dark, and After"--but concentrating more on the element of water than fire. | |||||
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A Community Birthday | by Leslie Vaughn Weaver Sep. 08, 2010 | $1.50 | 3657 words | Sample 35% |
| Monica, an African-American mother dealing with difficult times, is determined to throw a birthday party for her son at a local Mouse Land. When guests start canceling and the store managers begin demanding payment in full, Monica finds herself caught up in a case of racial bias. Can the situation be defused before the happy occasion becomes a nightmare? A short story from our Diversity line. | |||||
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A Continual Farewell | by Alexander Lurikov June 28, 2011 | $0.99 | 2588 words | Sample 20% |
| "As I poured myself another glass of whiskey I was reminded of my childhood..." In this story by Alexander Lurikov, author of Diary of a Discontent, the discovery of an old photograph leads a man on a quest to find a woman he once loved. | |||||
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A Couple | by Fred Bubbers Oct. 24, 2009 | $1.99 | 9405 words | Sample 25% |
| A short story about Rob and Debbie spending their last spring break together in Florida. Graduation is looming and they face an uncertain future. Family expectations, peer pressure, and their own hearts are driving them apart. | |||||
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A Dark Planetarium | by Scott William Carter Dec. 13, 2010 | Free! | 1750 words | Read a sample |
| When they arrived at the planetarium, the clerk was affixing a sign to the glass window: No shows today. Equipment malfunction ... A powerful tale about a special father and son trip that will haunt you long after the story's conclusion. SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER's first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "touching and impressive debut." | |||||
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A Daughter's Love | by Lorraine Sears Aug. 06, 2010 | $0.99 | 1332 words | Sample 25% |
| A young woman attempts to take care of her father who struggles with inner demons from his time at war. Can a daughter's love overcome the ferocity of a battle being waged in the mind? A tale from the Nibs literary short story line. | |||||
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A Derivation of Love | by Sterling Lynch Oct. 30, 2011 | $8.99 | 30039 words | Sample 15% |
| A unique and distinctively Canadian story about boys and girls and the problems between them. Warning: Explicit Sexual Content. On Twitter, tag comments with #DofL | |||||
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A Dog Named Blue | by Hilary Walker July 25, 2011 | $0.99 | 2373 words | Sample 20% |
| When the author sets out to find a big companion dog, little does she expect to take home a huge Great Dane who knocks her over! As a beloved family member, Blue creates colorful memories and captures her four year old son’s youth in an unforgettable sunset tableau. | |||||
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A Down Home Feeling | by Harry McDonald Sep. 14, 2011 | $0.99 | 3486 words | Sample 40% |
| In the middle of a torrid summer, Mason's world is turned upside down by squatters on his land. An ignorant head of a family, a man-boy with an unnerving stare, and an unhelpful sheriff's deputy make A Down Home Feeling a memorable read in the Southern Gothic tradition. | |||||
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A Dream Floats in Oblivion & Other Stories | by Raja Sharma July 13, 2011 | $3.99 | 28481 words | Sample 20% |
| I am a kind of scavenger and I am often successful in picking the shreds mostly left by others. With a little effort I join the pieces and create something that delights me and my readers. | |||||
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A Dream of Kings | by Harry Mark Petrakis May 23, 2011 | $9.99 | 47946 words | Sample 20% |
| "A Dream of Kings" tells the tale of Leonidas Matsoukas, a half-charlatan and half-concerned adviser, who is by turns a compulsive gambler and adulterer. But Matsoukas's dreams are fixed on an ailing son, for whose cure everything must be sacrificed. A journey to the sacred land of Greece will restore the health of the child and, perhaps too, the dignity of the father. | |||||
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A Fame of Two Halves | by Kevin Mahoney April 28, 2010 | $0.99 | 83180 words | Sample 10% |
| For Elliot Gold, manager of the Duxford Ducks football team, life seems to be going from bad to worse. His job and his marriage both face imminent demise. He pins all his hopes on winning one last match. But Elliot Gold is not a lucky man! Drowning his sorrows with his parents in Malta, Elliot is suddenly offered a chance to resurrect his football career with a team he renames The Maltese Falcons! | |||||
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A Fateful Trip | by B.K. Dell March 01, 2011 | $0.99 | 10157 words | Sample 50% |
| A tale of pure heroism and unlikely courage. Andy must raise his broken life up from the ashes of a tumultuous childhood, as Kristin learns of the terrible but inspiring event that had damaged him to begin with. B.K. Dell once again weaves thought provoking insight through action and humor in an uplifting story of bravery, sacrifice, patriotism and Gilligan’s Island. B.K Dell-Stories that Matter | |||||
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A Fear of the Dark and other stories | by John G. Paterson Feb. 08, 2011 | $4.99 | 36157 words | Sample 20% |
| A Fear of the Dark and other stories is a collection of short fiction and a diary. The diary was kept by the author's father for a few months in 1943 when he turned 21 and left Halifax for army training in England with the anticipation that he would soon be going to active duty. The six other stories explore the anxieties of the next generation in the last quarter of the 20th Century. | |||||
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A Few Short Stories Omnibus Volume 1 | by C.D. Reimer April 20, 2011 | $1.99 | 22307 words | Sample 30% |
| Read 18 flash and short stories in this first omnibus volume for one low price, including "The World's Best Coffee," "The Uninvited Spook," "The Forgotten Sinner," "Pure Indulgence," and "The Unfaithful Camera." | |||||
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A Few Worthy Options for the Soundtrack to Your Life | by Raymond A. Villareal July 26, 2010 | $5.00 | 58395 words | Sample 20% |
| Another week in Hollywood and the scene is all drama. An actor OD’s and his agent covers it up, an orgy begins and someone hides a camera, a Mexican gangbanger jacks a young Hollywood starlet, a sacrifice is placed in front of an altar to Saint Jesus Malverde—the Patron Saint of Drug Dealers. Last night, two lives intersected. The life of a hardcore hustler and a slick Hollywood agent. | |||||
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A Fox In The Old Hen House | by Luke Atkinson April 22, 2011 | $0.99 | 5175 words | Sample 20% |
| Some people believe pub games are only for fun, but some see it as an opportunity to seize money. Lucas Fox is one of those people and secretly rigs card games and takes bets on dart games. He recounts a story of his latest swindle and tries to justify his shady dealings. | |||||
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A galamb | by Brátán Erzsébet Nov. 17, 2011 | $1.99 | 9008 words | Sample 20% |
| Magdi hulla fáradtan, testileg, lelkileg elcsigázottan bandukolt hazafelé a munkából. Tudta, hogy otthon vár még rá a háztartási Å‘rület, ami a sÃrba kergeti, mert már annyira nem bÃrta a rengeteg veszÅ‘dséggel, és a túlpörgéssel járó mindennapos káoszt. Betért a sarki kisboltba, bevásárolt és hatalmas, megrakott szatyrokkal hazáig vonszolta magát. | |||||
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A Galvanic Satyr in the Year Two Thousand and Eight, Being a Prophetic Vision by Charlemagne Dement | by Jules Wellesley Sep. 24, 2009 | $0.99 | 18057 words | Sample 50% |
| Translator’s Note: At the time of its publication in 1908, "Un Satyr Galvanisé" scandalized the Continent with its bizarre mélange of optimistic scientism and Belle Epoque decadence. Banned in the U.S. upon release, this notorious novella combines keen social critique with outrageous bedroom farce. | |||||
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A Game of Contact | by Michael Jasper Aug. 25, 2011 | $0.99 | 10430 words | Sample 20% |
| A group of boys playing Dungeons & Dragons in the '80s. A high-tech worker finding an old friend in Baghdad, of all places. And a man who spends most of his life in a cocoon of his own making. These three stories come together in this science fiction tale of the past and future. Originally published in the Exquisite Corpuscle anthology. | |||||
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A gangorra | by Denny Yang Oct. 11, 2011 | $4.99 | 19938 words | |
| romance de Denny Yang com primeira edição impressa em 2007 e prefácio de Marcelo Coelho, conta a história de Mário, as voltas com um dilema num contexto social onde os valores morais se confundem facilmente. | |||||
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A Gentle Thief | by Amanda Dickson Oct. 21, 2011 | $9.99 | 119293 words | Sample 15% |
| A Gentle Thief is the story of a young girl found dead on New Year's Day in Cedar City, Utah, a small town known for its love of Shakespeare, with a single gun shot wound to her right temple, cradling a gun to her chest. Everyone believed it was a suicide, everyone except her father and the lawyer he hired 20 years later to change her death certificate to homicide. | |||||
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A Girl Named X. | by Jon Thorpe June 02, 2010 | Free! | 45751 words | Read a sample |
| X. is an orphan. She believes her father was killed in combat. Her brilliant mother committed suicide. X. discovers she can phase in and out of reality. She watches time fold in on itself. She passes through multiple dimensions. She seeks refuge in the City of Memory. She discovers a single path. She befriends a talking cat. She receives a message from her dead father and journeys to find him. | |||||